Till today I do not have any news of the MSI 955X Platinum motherboard that I’ve ordered because my old motherboard failed.
All my datas are stored in my 250GB and 200GB Maxtor hard drive and I need to use them for my work!
I leave my computer on almost 24/7 when my computer is working fine and I know the lifespan of the hard drive will be shorten. I’ve already had 2 hard drive failures and lost a lot of data. Certainly don’t want that to happen again.
I think I will invest in two 3.5″ hard drive external enclosures. I can connect it to my notebook or my future computer via USB2.0 or Firewire. Whenever I don’t need to access the hard drives, I can just power it down.
I called up my friend who is working for computer hardware supplier. He let me have a look at the enclosure that he has and it looks nice! The casing is made up of aluminium which keeps the hard drive cool.
Weirdly, there is no brand on the box and the casing. I thought it was some cheap OEM 3.5″ hard drive external enclosures. I searched around the internet from the model number and found that the brand is ArrowMicro.
Features
• Model#: HD6-U2FW (USB 2.0, Firewire Interface &IEEE 1394A 3.5″ Hard Drive External Enclosure)
• Support USB 1.1 on Window 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP and Mac O/S 8.6 or above
• Support USB 2.0 on Window 98SE/ME/2000/XP and Mac O/S 8.6 or above
• Support MAC OS 8.6/9.X/10.X
• USB 2.2/IDE compliant:
-Integrated USB transceiver
-High speed (480mbit) and full speed (12mbit) support
-USB suspend/resume, remote wake up support
• Fits all 3.5-inch hard disks
• Support ATA PIO modes 0-4: ATA interface operation mode is automatically selected during device initialization or manually programmed with configuration date
• support UDMA modes 0-4 operation
• Bootable: The computer can be booted directly from this enclosure, forthe purpose of switching OS and system backup. BIOS support bootable function required.
• 40x time faster than USB 1.1
• Support 40-pin IDE interface
• Easy to replace and assemble ATA device
• USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant
• Up to 480mb/sec
• Support up to 300GB Hard Drive
• Plug and Play hot swapping
• Superslim, lightweight and portable
Package Includes
• HD6-U2FW Case,
• Driver CD,
• Case Stand,
• USB cable,
• IEEE 1394 Cable,
• External Power Adapter
Specifications
• USB 2.0
-Complies with Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev. 2.
-Complies with ATA / ATAPI-6 Specification Rev 1.0 (PIO mode 0~4, DMA mode 0~2, UDMA mode 0~5).
-Supports 16-bit multiword DMA mode and Ultra DMA mode interface (Ultra 33 / 66 / 100 / 133)
-Genesys GL811E Chipset
• 1394 Link (Firewire)
-Fully interoperable with IEEE-1394(1995) and IEEE 1394.a-2000 compliant
-Support for SBP-2 target agent
-Fully ATA/ATAPI-6 compliant
-Supports IDE PIO modes and DMA modes and Ultra DMA modes up to UDMA100.
-Genesys GL711 Chipset